Simple Email Application for Psych 290 in the Language Acquisition and Speech Perception Lab.  Just copy these questions into your email message, answer the questions, and send it to us at lalab@s.psych.uiuc.edu.  Thanks!

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Psych 290 Application

Language Acquisition Lab   (room 83 Psychology); Speech Perception Lab (room 779 Psychology)

Faculty supervisor:  Cynthia Fisher, cfisher@s.psych.uiuc.edu

If you're interested in joining the Language Acquisition Lab group, please give us the following information:

Name: 

Phone #:

E-mail address:

Major: 

GPA: 

Year in school:  

What semester is this application for? (e.g., summer, fall...)

Are you primarily interested in research with adults or with children?

Any previous research experience?  (give semester, and faculty advisor's name)

Please give names and numbers for two references.

How experienced are you in working with computers (Macs, PCs?), using software like Excel?

(If interested in research with children) Describe your experience with children, if any:

Any previous coursework in Cognitive Psychology, Linguistics, Speech and Hearing Science, or Developmental Psychology?  (give names of classes, not just numbers)

What interests you in this 290?  (E.g., do you plan to go to grad school in some related field?)

For 3 credit hours, it is customary to put in 9 to 10 hours per week in the lab.  One hour of this will be the lab meeting.  The lab operates in 3-hour shifts: 9-12, 12:30-3:30, 3:30-6:30, Mondays through Fridays except Friday afternoons. Please indicate ALL of these three-hour shifts (e.g., 9-12 Tuesday morning …) for which you would be available. You can star your favorite choices, but we need people to be flexible if the schedule is going to work out.